Translated from the Croatian by the author
The following is the English translation of a video of my speech at the conference at the prestigious Jesuit center in the capital of Croatia, Zagreb, on May 22. The conference was held on the occasion of the recently published book, Titov Jasenovac (2014) by a Croat historian Mladen Ivezic. Jasenovac is a location in Croatia that is frequently associated by antifascists and procommunist scholars with the alleged mass killings of hundreds of thousands Communists, Serbs and Jews during WWII by the pro-fascist Croat nationalists, i.e. the “Ustashas.” The event was attended by many prominent Croat nationalists, survivors of communist camps and many other public figures, including a number of Catholic clerics and a local bishop.
Ivezic rejects body counts put forward by the former communist Yugoslav government and offers a substantial bibliography on how the camp of Jasenovac was used instead, in the aftermath of WWII, by victorious Yugoslav communists for their mass killings of imprisoned nationalist and anticommunist opponents. He shows that subsequently, the Yugoslav communists attributed the overall number of the killed at the Jasenovac camp as the work of the defeated local Croat fascists.
The official number of the pro-fascist Croat Ustashi victims has wildly varied ever since: from 700,000 victims, claimed during the communist period in ex-Yugoslavia, to the official 70,000 victims in contemporary Croatia, with more and more attempts at downsizing the number of the camp victims.
The issue of Jasenovac puts very serious strains on the relationship between Serbs and Croats. Moreover, the symbol of the Jasenovac camp reflects not just deep divisions between the so-called antifascists and nationalists in today’s Europe but also points to very serious and highly inflammable rifts between and among all European nationalists. Following the recent electoral success of nationalist parties in Europe, it would be foolish, naive and dangerous to fantasize about some “common White European homeland,” having in mind the radically conflicting “cultural memories” of all European peoples. The case in point is that time and again, as in modern Ukraine, there are two mutually exclusive visions of its future by pro-Russian and Ukrainian nationalists respectively.

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A good portion of Croatia’s modern historiography, covering the period from 1941 to 1945, can be described as an exercise in the antifascist demonology. Such historiography rests on a poor empirical basis. It should be borne in mind that modern historiography, just as the study of other fields in social sciences, is still subject to specific historical and political circumstances, especially the military victory of the Allies over the Axis forces in 1945. Without Stalin and the Communists, the Western Allies would have never won World War II. Without Roosevelt and the capitalist America, the Soviet Union and Stalin would not have won World War II. Without the help of the Allied British and Americans, the Yugoslav Communist Josip Broz Tito and his Party would have never come to power in communist Yugoslavia.
Of course, Auschwitz was liberated by the Red Army in late January 1945, although the same Red Army forces, five years earlier, had secretly murdered thousands of Polish officers in the Katyn forest. On its way to Auschwitz, the Red Army had murdered and expelled millions of German civilians — from the Baltic states to Silesia. Modern historiography, taught at universities across America and Europe, has not only a pedagogical purpose, but also serves to demonize political opponents in order to better conceal its own home-grown skeletons in the closet. Moreover, each historiographical demonology is accompanied by an oppositional victimology teeming with a subjective and hypermoralistic narrative whose prime purpose is to highlight one’s own body counts while diminish the other.

Fascist Bestiary
Fascist snakes, fascist serpents, fascist dragons, and the whole arsenal from the fascist bestiary were always at hand in former communist Yugoslavia, because this was the surest way for communist Yugoslavia to justify its existence. Today, a significant number of historians and journalists in Croatia continue to resort to the same arsenal of the fascist bestiary. However, the unofficial Croatia — the Croatia that exists apart from political, media and academic elites — rejects this bestiary because it reminds her fŇĹrard times in former communist Yugoslavia. The old political rule comes again to light: there is a legal Croatia; but there is also a legitimate Croatia, each with its own symbols, its own demonology and its own conflicting and exclusive victimhood. The question needs to be raised: Can the modern global system and its extension in the new political class in Zagreb survive without its antifascist demonology, without its Jasenovac camp, without its demon [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ante_Paveli%C4%87"]Ante Pavelic%5tĽŢwURL]— and without the timeless demon Adolf Hitler?
Each historical event is unique, single and cannot be repeated. But in the present age of transformational changes across Europe, the historian interprets each historical event based on his own ethnic, ideological and theological pedigree. The first conclusion we must draw is that before we read history, we must first read the historian. We must ask: What are the historian’s motives for such and such approach to a historical subject matter, or in our case the body counts of Croatia’s Jasenovac and the Croatian Bleiburg? Jasenovac was a pro-fascist Ustasha concentration camp; Bleiburg was a communist killing field — not a concentration camp. From the technical point of view, each political concentration camp, anywhere in the world, in any political regime, at any historical epoch, is not designated for immediate destruction of prisoners, but rather for their slave labor. If it were not so then concentration camps would cease to exist. Our second conclusion is therefore of legal and logistical nature; war crimes are not the same as crimes committed in the aftermath of war or crimes beyond the battle lines. Prison camps are not the same as nameless graves, abandoned mine shafts, ravines and pits for which we still have little documentation available.
Demonological, mythological, criminological, and pathological approach to recent Croatian history constituted the core of the former Yugoslav identity, but also formed the legal crux of antifascist Yugoslavia. The distorted communist historiography was the main cause of the breakup of Yugoslavia and the ensuing war against the newly formed Croatian state 1991. In the light of recent historical research, based to some extent on forensic investigations, as well as access to archives, the former Yugoslav antifascist historiography is beginning to show cracks, and as time elapses, it takes on hagiographical and science fictional traits.
It is interesting to note that when antifascist historiography becomes empirically untenable, it begins assuming “civil-religious” traits, as is the case today all over Europe. These new “civil-religious” traits reject and often legally censor any critical reassessment of the history of WWII. The best example again is the case of former Yugoslavia before its dissolution. The media and the intellectual war between Croatian and Serbian historians and journalists had been in full swing regarding both the victims of the Jasenovac camp and Bleiburg — a verbal war of historical memories that inevitably spilled over into real armed conflict in 1991. The symbolism of Jasenovac and Bleiburg had a different meaning for a Serb peasant living near the Croat town of Sisak, a completely different meaning for a Croat peasant living in the same vicinity, and a completely different meaning for a former Croatian émigré living in the vicinity of Santiago, Stuttgart or Sydney.
Demons, ghosts, snakes, evil spirits, witches, beasts, devils and monsters, were negative images used by the former regime-sponsored Yugoslav antifascists for the personification of the pro-fascist Ustasha government during WWII. In a similar fashion modern day antifascists use similar labels to depict their right-wing nationalist opponents. Seventy years after the end of World War II and nearly 25 years after the founding of modern Croatia, the identity of the Croatian state remains fragile. On the one hand we are witnessing the demonological, snake-like, criminogenic and pathogenic Croat identity, largely instilled by world-wide antifascist propagandists, mythographers, and demonologists; on the other hand, there is a considerable number of domestic victimological Croats who condense their entire identity into to pronounced anti-Serbianism, and to posthumous-commemorative obituaries of their own victims only.

Killing Sprees
This is nothing new. Demonology in regard to the “Other” carries always its counterpart — its own self-serving victimology. After all, the henchman has his own victimhood — for himself and his family. And each victimhood, including the Croat victimhood in regard to Bleiburg, has ultimately — and unfortunately — a vindictive side. The Croat dead in the aftermath of May 1945, be they victims of the Bleiburg killing fields or those at Tito’s post-WWII Jasenovac, did not fall from the sky; those victims were caused by somebody, and that ” somebody,” or that “Other,” or his children, still live in Croatia today .
The entire classical literature is full of ghosts, demons and evil deities, with even the heroes turning into henchmen, as was the case with Siegfried and Hagen in the Nibelungenepic, or Hector and Achilles in Homer’s Iliad, or our well-known Western neurotics with suicidal fantasies, like Faust and Hamlet. The ancient god of the underworld, Hades delivered only one way tickets for politically incorrect characters who had dared to defy the rites of their times. The guardian of the Hades underworld was Cerberus, a three-headed political dog with a snake tail — one could almost say a forerunner of the future Bolshevik commissar, very similar in looks to the Yugoslav communist Moshe Pijade. \
Hell awaits all — both good men and bad men, especially when a good man loses a sense of the tragic and begins raving about how historical times must come to an end. Even our cherished heroes like Odysseus and Agamemnon, after they had burned down Troy and killed the young and old of the city, experienced in their turn a terrible fate. Ulysses’ crew members, after a decade of wandering through the rough seas, were eaten alive by Cyclops. The powerful king Agamemnon, on his return to home sweet home, was ambushed and butchered by his own wife. Their son, the hero Orestes underwent torments by the furies, the goddesses of revenge, because he had avenged his father by killing his own mother Clytemnestra, who had previously killed his father — her legitimate husband.
It is futile to debate with modern demonologists the veracity or mendacity of WW II body counts or attempt to provide empirical or forensic evidence regarding diverse victimhoods. All of us rightly clamor that ” victims, regardless of their size and number deserve respect.”
Agreed. And this regardless of whether the figure of the dead in the pro-fascist Ustasha camp of Jasenovac was 700,000 or 70,000 or 7,000 or 700 dead! If we were to accept the 700 figure, as put forward by the author of this book, the difference is in 699,300 lives — which is no small thing for a small Croatia, let alone for the great mythical Homeric stories, and let alone for the antifascist demonology!
Demonology is a matter of faith, a kind of collective mystique, just like today’s democratic mystique about the everlasting European Union and limitless economic growth. It is naive to believe that the modern antifascist demonology, including the hagiographical tales about the Second World War, can be disputed by facts. And even when such antifascist demonology becomes outmoded, another one will spring up in its place. Demonologies have always been around, ever since the beginning of time, irrespective of the period of the Enlightenment. In fact, the period of the Enlightenment in the 18th century ushered in its own dangerous myths: the myth of progress and the myth of permanent economic growth. If by chance somebody today ventures to voice his disapproval of today’s modern myths, such as the myth of liberal democracy, the myth of multiculturalism, the myth of parliamentarianism, the myth of coexistence between peaceful peasants and pristine pederasts promoted by the LGBT lobby, he will likely be declared insane by the System.
Not long ago a large number of historians in today’s Croatia were avid spokesmen of the Communist demonology only to become today avid supporters of the American liberal mystique. What must be of our concern are not their communist bygone times but rather how quickly they recycled their former beliefs. Tomorrow, when new demonologies set in, they will swiftly start praying to new gods and bow down before new lares and penates.

Greetings to everyone reading this article at the moment. I wrote this article to combat some of the rumours and lies about Croatian nationalism, mostly created and spread by Serbian members of this site, but not exclusively Serbs.

The goal of this article is to nullify certain myths that could turn inexperienced members of this site against Croatia, its nationalism and everything connected to it. The article below touches all spheres of modern Croatian nationalism and brings complete truth about its one and a half century long history, drawing comparisons to other political and nationalist forces of the time to make conclusions easier to bring. I will refute all of the myths against Croatian nationalism-starting with the mythical Jewish 'father' of Croatian radical nationalism, Josip Frank, to the would be conspiracy of the USA and Republic of Croatia against Serbia in the 1990s.

DEFAMATION AGAINST CROATIAN NATIONALISM

Myth:Croatian nationalism was created and thrived with the help of an anti-Serb lawyer of partly Jewish descent, Josip Frank.

Josip Frank

That's a real godsend for Serbs, especially with the supposed islamophilia of Croatians, about which I will discuss later.

A discovery that Croatian nationalism was, supposedly, a product of Jewish anti-Serb hatred could cut all the Croat-Serb arguments right in the start and bring victory for the Serbian side. Conclusion would be-Croatians have nothing to speak about, as their spiritual father is a Jew.

But does it find its basis on legit historical evidence?

The premise for this myth finds its basis in these facts;
-A lawyer of partly Jewish descent, Josip Frank, was active among Croatian nationalists from the 2nd half of the 19th century.
-Frank was the one to promote 'anti-Serb hatred'
-Frank was active in HSP, far-right Croatian party which is still in existence

Is this true at all? Could Croatian nationalism be the child of a vile anti-Serb Jewish lawyer? Why would a Jew interfere with Croatian nationalism anyway?

Just like many other claims coming from Serbian mouths, it's a blatant lie, a combination of magnification of certain facts with a bit of myth added in.

Now for a thorough analysis of some of those myths.
Myth number one is that Frank is the father of Croatian radical nationalism, a beautiful display of Croatian-Jewish symbiosis to bring despair and suffering to the innocent, unarmed Serbian folk in Croatia.

However, the myth itself becomes silly and downright hilarious when confronted with the fact contrasting the very title of that myth-Frank isn't even the father of Croatian nationalism, as its basis was formed even before Frank became an active politician.

There's even more-at the time of the creation of Croatian nationalism, Frank hadn't even yet established his name among the ranks of Croatian nationalists.

The real father of radical Croatian nationalism and Croatian pursuit of a free state is Ante Starčević, a gentile, who was also the founding father of the HSP, and later HČSP parties which even today earn the wrongly coined nickname 'Frankovci'.
Starčević is called 'Otac Domovine', 'Father of the Homeland'.

Ante Starčević

Starčević is also the father of rhetoric that spoke against the idea of Greater Serbia and meddling of Serbia with Croatian affairs, meaning that the 'anti-Serb rhetoric' isn't Frank's legacy after all.
He was the leading and unifying persona of Croatian nationalism from the start of his political career until his death.

Back to Frank and his Jewishness-Frank wasn't even a Jew (though he was a half Jew by descent)-Frank renounced Judaism and was a Roman Catholic-naturally, his genetics is a different topic, but an unimportant one and not the one we will be discussing in this article.

Starčević's later political party Frank was a member of, HČSP (Croatian Pure Party of Rights) is the result of masonic infiltration by Fran Folnegović. Folnegović strongly disapproved of burning of Hungarian flags by Croatian nationalists (at the time, Hungarian governent unfairly plundered Croatian economics). As a result, Starčević separated and created the HČSP fraction, which pursuited the dream of a free Croatian state, regardless of circumstances.

Yet in the end, Frank beared the unfortunate title of 'Hungarian agent' (an ironic title considering he joined a party that had nothing against burning of Hungarian flag), and radical Pravaši (Party of Rights) members earned the nickname Frankovci, even though Frank wasn't their main spiritual leader.

Next important question is:was Frank ever met with universal acclaim from Croatian nationalists? The answer is a short and clear no.

Here are the quotes of another famous Croatian nationalist and poet from Frank's period, Antun Gustav Matoš.

Antun Gustav Matoš

Quote:

But you won't continue, you cowardly swindlers, you who bring your political opponent under the gallows, renouncing fight for the national right, language and dignity. You have been fooling me like many others, but I say to the trader of the skins of Croatian opposition, Josip Frank, that I am sorry for not being drawn to the defendant's seat as a lesson to our youth, and I say that I will prove to him what is a free Croatian pen.

Let there be no confusion-Matoš was also a supporter of Croatian Party of Rights and a Croatian nationalist. However, he saw Frank as a traitor and a servant of Hungarian and Austrian court.

Matoš was a declared antisemite, which is probably one of the main reasons of his distrust with Josip Frank, and possibly the reason of long time needed to install his statue in Paris, a city in which he spent a part of his life and wrote many poems.

It would be fair to conclude that Frank wasn't seen as trustworthy because of his partial Jewish ancestry. Which also crushes the myth of incredible semitophilia among Croatian nationalists.

The supposed 'anti-Serb hatred' that was stirred by Josip Frank among Croatian nationalism is even more silly, as there is no proof that Frank had much hatred for Serbs in him. In fact, here is Frank's quote on Serbs and it proves otherwise;

Quote:

We love every Christian Orthodox citizen of the Kingdom of Croatia who wants to work for the freedom of our homeland;however, we oppose everyone who works against our freedom and our pursuits.

Maybe the Serbian side looks upon any opposition to the idea of Serbia from Vardar to Lika as chauvinist, anti-Serb rhetoric, but at the time Greater Serbia was a dangerous ambition for Croats and a threat to its existence.

Serbian nationalists were radical supporters of Greater Serbia, which should have encompassed most of Croatia. Greater Serbia was a dream that lasted for more than a century, and was crushed only recently in Yugoslavian wars.

We can end this with a summa summarum about this myth and end it with some conclusions;
-Frank isn't the father of radical Croatian nationalism, Ante Starčević is
-Though he supported a free Croatian state, Frank was met with distrust caused by his partial Jewish descent, even though he renounced Judaism
-Frank himself distanced his name from anti-Serb hatred.

Frank was seen as an infamous agent working only for Austrian and Hungarian interests.
Preoccupied with Austrian and Hungarian dictature in the Monarchy, most of Croatians didn't even have enough time to spot the real threat-Serbian expansionism. Starčević was the only one to see through sugarcoated lies about 'panslavism' that were spread by the Serbian court.

He advocated opposition to Karadžić's idea of Greater Serbia and Serbian meddling with affairs over the western bank of Drina.
Frank continued his politics of defying Serbian expansionism. However, Croatia became a part of a Serb ran state, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and Croats found themselves under oppression I will write about in the rest of this post.

Political terror over Croats in Yugoslavia

We've already made a strong conclusion about the supposed Judaic origins of Croatian nationalism. Unfortunately for defamatory lies about Croatia, Croatian nationalism isn't the fruit of an 'anti-Serb Jewish lawyer'.

So who are we left with now? Was it a conspiracy of Vatican? Germany? Imperial Austria? Aliens?

Why did Croatians develop any dislike for Serbs at all?

We'll need to thoroughly analyze the politics of Serbian hegemony in Kingdom of Yugoslavia in order to be provided with an answer to that.

In 1918. Austria lost the war. Austrian-Hungarian empire, the one Croatia was a part of, fell apart.

Creation of a free Croatian state was impossible at the moment as great powers wouldn't allow it. De facto, Croatia was forced to join the union with Serbia. The new state had several names, but was best known under its last name-Kingdom of Yugoslavia. There were no elections-the act of joining could be viewed more logically as an annexion.

New state was immediately proclaimed-it had no constitution at all and all power was placed in the hands of Serbian king Alexander.

Below is the list of crimes against Croatians in Yugoslavia-bear in mind that Serbia and Croatia never had any conflicts and war crimes prior to that, and there was no justification or reasonable motivation for crimes commited over Croatian people.

ECONOMIC PLUNDER OF CROATIA
When Croatia joined Yugoslavia, savings of Croatian people were kept in Austrian kroner. New Yugoslavian authorities forced Croatians to exchange kroner for dinar-however, for one dinar they had to give away 4 kroner. Which means that just by that act, immediately after joining Yugoslavia, Croatian people lost most of their savings!

Economic terror didn't stop there-Croatia and Slovenia were forced to give the biggest part of tax for Yugoslavia, while Serbia provided a radically smaller amount.

The money was then put into Serbian infrastructure-leaving Croatia in years of stagnation and lack of development.

CULTURAL TERROR
Catholic Church was constantly under pressure, and Orthodox Church was privileged.
Organisation of Yugoslavian Nationalists, ORJUNA, encouraged and cooperated with Serbian nationalist fractions, though it worked against Croatian nationalism.
Serbian cyrillic was imposed as the official script.

MURDERS AND MASSACRES
It didn't take too long for new Yugoslavian authorities to start commiting massacres over Croatian opponents of the regime.
Already in December of 1918., protests started in Croatia. Gendarmerie responded with killing and wounding unarmed protesters.Protests on 5th of December 1918.

But massacres didn't stop there.
7 years later, in 1925. another massacre was commited by gendarmerie in Stajnica, were people protested over local election being shut down. Gendarmerie beat, tortured and imprisoned people.

Massacres continued. In February of 1935. in Sibinj there was a celebration of anniversary of Pope's election. Again, people were killed, beaten and imprisoned for no reason-no laws were broken.

However, of all the massacres commited, one was engraved in collective memory of Croatian people for its brutality and its cunning.
In May of 1937. Croatian youth gathered in Senj and waved Croatian flag-there was a new celebration, concert of ansamble Trebević from Sarajevo.

Gendarmerie again opened fire with no reason.
The result-seven innocent young victims.

There seemed to be no end for the massacres-in April 1941. army commited massacres around Bjelovar.

And with all the listed crimes and murders, there was only one act that finally brought Croatian nationalists to breaking point.

Shortly after dictatorship was established in Yugoslavia, aristocide began. The goal was to behead any opposition created by high ranking Croatian nationalists. Attempts of frightening Croatian folk to stop with nationalist tendencies didn't work, so one solution was left-to kill off highest ranking Croatian intellectuals and politicians.

Milan Šufflay
A prominent Croatian nationalist and historian. He was persecuted by the regime and received death threats, but he didn't stop with his efforts. Murdered by the 'Young Yugoslavia' (organization protected by the King himself) group in 1931. by a hammer blow. Murderers were linked to the authorities.

Mile Budak
A prominent Croatian lawyer, writer and politician.
Victim of an assassination attempt in 1932. However, he survived and went on to become one of the leaders of Axis Croatian government. Killed by Partisan communists in 1945.

Those are some of many assassinations in Yugoslavia, but one assassination was the final straw.

In 1928. in the very building of the National Assembly, 3 Croatian members vere victims of an assassination:
Đuro Basariček

Pavle Radić

Along with them, the main target and victim of the assassination was the famous leader of Croatian peasantry, Stjepan Radić

Shortly after the event, a smaller group of radical Croatian nationalists decided it was enough, forming a new group with the establishment of a free Croatian state as their only goal-UHRO, best known as 'Ustashe'.

Ustashe decided to fight with all the means necessary to establish a new and free Croatian state. In the pursuit of freedom, they joined Axis powers and Hitler, becoming the most demonized of all Croatian political organizations in history.

Their deeds are discussed in the next paragraph.

MYTHS ABOUT UHRO-Ustasha movement

Myths about UHRO are vivid, diverse and beautiful-and a complete falsification.

Let's begin with the silliest one-phantomic Jews in Ustasha leadership.

'Jews' in Ustasha leadership

Not so long ago I came upon an article written by MirkoS, posted in Stormfront Serbia and quoted multiple times to win some arguments with Croats on other parts of Stormfront. Let's place it here;

Quote:

On 12 August 1922, the leader of the Ustasha movement Ante Pavelic married Maria Lovrenčević. Maria was part Jewish through her mother's family and her father, Martin Lovrenčević, was a member of the Party of Rights and a well-known journalist.

The Party of Right was doomed to remain on the fringe of Croatian national politics within the Empire. But it was an attractive ideology when it was discovered by a young lawyer from Bradina, a small village in present-day Bosnia-Hercegovina, named Ante Pavelic. Ante Pavelic rose through the ranks of the Party of Right after the incorporation of Croatia into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, later to be renamed Yugoslavia. He led the far right-wing of what was already a right-wing party - the "Frankist" faction, so named after Josip Frank, a singularly intolerant man despite his ethnic background as an assimilated Jew.

Josip (Joseph) Frank:

Frank was born into a Croatian Jewish family,[1] and he attended the gymnasium in Osijek. After having finished his law studies at the Vienna University in 1872, he moved to Zagreb and worked as an attorney at law.

From the beginning, Pavelic had quite naturally adopted Frank's ideology for his own movement.

Ante Pavelic's wife, Mara Lovrencic, came from a family of assimilated Viennese Jews, and his chief aide in exile, Dido Kvaternik, was related to Josip Frank.

Slavko Kvaternik - Dido Kvaternik's father and the elder statesman of the Ustase movement - declared the Independent State of Croatia in the name of the poglavnik (a Croatian equivalent of duce or fuehrer) Ante Pavelic.

Slavko Kvaternik married Olga Frank, the daughter of Josip (Joshua) Frank. Slavko Kvaternik's son, Col. Dido (Eugen) Kvaternik, Ustasa commissioner for Public Order and Security was, according to both German and Judaic law, a Jew. Therefore, not only was the wife of Ante Pavelic, the Chief-of-State, Jewish, but the wife of the vice-president and Chief of the Armed Forces, police forces, and gendarmes was also a Jew.

Other prominent Jews in the Ustasha leadership included the Ustasha Representative to Hungary Alexander Klein, Vlado (Vladimir) Singer of the Ustasha Police, and Pavelic's personal physician. In addition to the families of Dr. Pavelic and Marshal Kvaternik, the wife of Minister Milovan Zanic was also a Jew.

A Jewish lawyer, Hinko Hinkovic, was amongst the ideological and political leaders of Croatian nationalism and Vlado Singer, a Jewish intellectual, worked for Pavelic's election to parliament in 1927.

Some of the Jews in the Ustasha movement:

General Milan Miesler (the Croatian Gendarmerie (Hrvatsko Oruznistvo) was formed on April 30th 1941, as a rural police, commanded first by Major-General Milan Miesler);

General Milan Praunsperger (1941- 1943 Head Judge Advocate General’s Office of the Home Defence Army 1943 - 1945 Head Military Archives);

General Oskar Kirchbaum;

General Josip Šulc;

General Ferdinand Halke;

One of the Ustasha movement most renowned writers in the second emigration, an Ustasa from the first emigration, Dr. Ivo Korsky - was also a Jew.

Ivo Korsky:

The Ustashe's "Honorary Aryans"

Even more interesting was the fact that the S.S. Intelligence service had discovered that nearly all members of the ruling clique in Croatia, from the head of government to the leader of the Ustashe, were married to Jewish women. The fifteen hundred survivors among the Jews in this area were clearly all members of this highly assimilated, and extraordinarily rich, Jewish group.

In the initial anti-Jewish legislation, the Germans had noted a curious paragraph that transformed into 'honorary Aryans' all Jews who made contributions to 'the Croat cause.' Hundreds of other Jewish leaders and officials were made "honorary Aryans," a practice that the Germans looked upon as quite serious. W. H. Allen, in his book, The Destruction of the European Jews, noted that: (German Police Attache SS-Obersturmbannfuehrer) "Helm added that the problem of honorary Aryans was admittedly unsolved; some of them were still holding office." Helm remarked that quite a few Croat leaders had strong family ties with Jews and that "some cabinet members had Jewish wives."(16)

Jews and the racial laws

"Like all areas occupied by the Germans, the Gestapo and SD units of the SS were active in Croatia. The heavy toll of Jews, as well as Croatian Catholics and Moslems, was surely taken. Although the Croatian government posted the racial laws required of them by Germans, Jews were on many occasions assisted by the Croatian people and Croatian laws. One such law redefined the German racial laws in such a way as to allow hundreds of Jews and children of mixed marriages to escape the Nazis. Another law granted full citizenship to those who had excelled in their "service to the Croatian State." (15)

Facts:

i. The Ustasha were often known as 'Francovi' or 'Frankists' due to the dominance in their political evolution of Dr. Isaiah Frank, a Jew. He became leader of The Party of Right (Law) in 1896, following the death of Starcevic. Dr. Frank became a Catholic, taking the baptismal name of Josip ((EJ 16:917)). Frank was greatly admired and honoured by the Ustasha.

ii. A Jewish lawyer, Hinko Hinkovic, was amongst the ideological and political leaders of Croatian nationalism ((EJ 16: 917)) and Vlado Singer, a Jewish intellectual, worked for Pavelic's election to parliament in 1927 ((MTA 125)).

iii. The Ustasha was not greatly interested in the Jews prior to the outbreak of the war ((SSJ 19: 22)). Their hatred was centred on the Serbs.

iv. Pavelic (as Chief of State) and Milovan Zanic (as President of the Legislative Committee) jointly signed the 1941 decrees concerning Jewish and Serbian property ((RL 606-627)). Yet both had Jewish wives ((MR 69)). According to Nazi ideology, the lives of these wives and their 'mischling' children were under threat.

v. Slavko Kvaternik who proclaimed Croatian independence on 10th April 1941, and became Commander of the Armed Forces and Pavelic's deputy, also had a Jewish wife ((IO 21-22)).

vi. Eugen (Dido) Kvaternik was appointed Director of Public Security. Being the son of Slavko he was therefore half Jewish.

vii. Jews were still holding official positions in Croatia, including senior ones within the Ustasha command, as late as 1944 ((RH 457)).

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The fact that their hatred was centred on the Serbs was even confirmed by the Germans:

As early as July 10, 1941, Wehrmacht General Edmund Glaise von Horstenau reported the following to the German High Command, the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW):

“ Our troops have to be mute witnesses of such events; it does not reflect well on their otherwise high reputation... I am frequently told that German occupation troops would finally have to intervene against Ustaše crimes. This may happen eventually. Right now, with the available forces, I could not ask for such action. Ad hoc intervention in individual cases could make the German Army look responsible for countless crimes which it could not prevent in the past. ”

“ Increased activity of the bands [of rebels] is chiefly due to atrocities carried out by Ustaše units in Croatia against the Orthodox population. The Ustaše committed their deeds in a bestial manner not only against males of conscript age, but especially against helpless old people, women and children. The number of the Orthodox that the Croats have massacred and sadistically tortured to death is about three hundred thousand. ”

During World War II, various German military commanders gave different figures for the number of Serbs killed in NDH - They circulated figures of 400,000 Serbs (Alexander Lehr); 350,000 Serbs (Lothar Rendulic); between 300,000 (Edmund Glaise von Horstenau); more than "3/4 of a million Serbs" (Hermann Neubacher) in 1943; 600-700,000 until March 1944 (Ernst Fick); 700,000 (Massenbach).

The exact number of Serbs killed in the NDH is unknown because, after the war, the Communists (led by Josip Broz Tito - Croat) destroyed evidences of Ustasha crimes. They (Communists) were doing that because it was supposed to create a Yugoslavia in which all nations should be the same.

Hermann Neubacher stated:

The recipe, received by the Ustaše leader and Poglavnik, the president of the Independent State of Croatia, Ante Pavelić, resembled genocidal intentions from some of the bloodiest religious wars: "A third must become Catholic, a third must leave the country, and a third must die!" This last point of the Ustaše's program was accomplished. When prominent Ustaše leaders claimed that they slaughtered a million Serbs (including babies, children, women and old men), that is, in my opinion, a boastful exaggeration. On the basis of the reports submitted to me, I believe that the number of defenseless victims slaughtered to be three-quarters of a million.

Also, Italian soldiers, who were overwhelmed and disgusted by the atrocious slaughter, reported similar figures to their commanders.

Even the Vatican's sources also speak of similar figures, that is, for an example, of 350,000 ethnic-Serbs slaughtered by the end of 1942 [Eugen Tisserant 124]

Even worse, for achieving their goals they have collaborated with the Bosnian Muslims. The NDH propaganda described the Muslims of Bosnia as the “Croatian flowers and the purest Croatians”. The first vice-president in the NDH was Osman Kulenovic (muslim) later it was his brother Dzafer Kulenovic (muslim). 3 more Muslims were ministers in the NDH, Hilmija Beslagic, Mehmed Mehicic and Mehmed Alajbegovic.

Ante Pavelic hand-in-hand with Ali Aganovic, right, the envoy of the Bosnian Muslim community of Sarajevo at the opening of the mosque in Zagreb, August, 1944, which Pavelic and the NDH Ustasha regime constructed.

Ante Pavelic built one of the largest mosques in Europe:

Wonderful! Outstanding! Ustasha were probably the pioneers of multiculturalism with thousands of Jews in their ranks.
You might think that every yarmulka in Croatia has a large U letter embroidered on it, that every circumcision goes with Ustasha anthem being sung and that a picture of Pavelić hangs in every Jewish home. Why doesn't Croatian left praise the UHRO?

Actually, that's a load of nonsense-it's just a lie and myth. And the paragraphs below prove it.

MirkoS's discovery of 'Jews' in Ustasha movement (half of the 'jews' listed in his post have no Jewish ancestry at all) was certainly a delightful discovery.
A huge rock fell from his heart, and the burden was easier. The Third Reich was just a bunch of inexperienced fools who got fooled by the evil Jew-ran Ustasha movement. *sarcasm

His logic probably goes this way-The Third Reich killed every single Jew in its borders, while NDH had Jews in major positions. Therefore, NDH is just a Jewish concept and Germans didn't have enough intelligence debunk it.

What he'll be amazed by is the fact that Hitler himself had more persons of Jewish ancestry around him than Pavelic! It refutes the lie of 'Jew ran NDH' right from the beginning-if NDH is Jewish, wouldn't Third Reich be Jewish as well?

The myth simply falls apart when you read the list of officials of partly Jewish origin in the Third Reich and compare it to the situation in NDH.

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On 12 August 1922, the leader of the Ustasha movement Ante Pavelic married Maria Lovrenčević. Maria was part Jewish through her mother's family and her father, Martin Lovrenčević, was a member of the Party of Rights and a well-known journalist.

Allegedly, Pavelic's wife was a Jew. A controversial claim.
Her gravestone with a Catholic Cross on it begs to differ.

But, I digress-now I notice that the original claim says she wasn't Jew, but rather part Jewish.
That makes things incredibly complicated for us. She wasn't a Jew by faith, but rather part Jewish. Again, it becomes even more complicated. None of her parents were Jewish-she is supposed to be part Jewish through her maternal side, as her mother comes from an assimilated family of Vienesse Jews.

In his post, MirkoS takes a quote from English Wikipedia. English Wikipedia says that she was indeed part Jewish, and lists the book 'Tko je tko u NDH' which contains her short biography as a source.

I managed to come across a copy of the book on the internet, and I quickly browsed for data on Pavelic's wife.

However, I was confused-Lovrencevic's part Jew origin isn't listed anywhere in her biography in the book 'Tko je tko u NDH'. Why does Wikipedia take the book that doesn't claim she was part Jewish as a source for the claim that she was indeed part Jewish? I can't be certain.

Here is what journalist Miljenko Jergović* writes about it

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Jadranka Kolarević made a short lesson about the Jewish role in NDH on a session of HRT. She said that Eugen Kvaternik's mother was part Jewish, and that Pavelic's wife was part Jewish. While the second claim is a total lie, in fact one of those Croatian hystorical myths by which jealous citizens discredit their ruler by proclaiming him to be **Russian, Gypsy, homosexual or Jewish son-in-law...

*side note-Jergovic could be taken as a neutral source, as he himself hates Pavelic and has no benefit in proving his wife wasn't or was a Jew.
**Jergovic probably refers to some of these rumors-that Tito was supposedly a Russian spy, that Stipe Mesić was a Gypsy

This is interesting. I found a claim on the internet that Lovrencevic was named 'a Jew' by Marija Kvaternik, Eugen Dido Kvaternik's wife.
Kvaternik family had disputes with Lovrencevic, and as it is obvious from a certain internet interview with Marija Kvaternik, she did dislike Lovrencevic. Unfortunately, I couldn't find the claim itself.

I tried searching for some credible sources on Lovrencevic's part Jewish mother, but nothing is to be found. Lots of articles say Lovrencevic was the 'invisible leader of NDH' but there's no proof. Most of information on the topic itself is rumours, myths and ancient alien-like stories.

In a certain online newspaper article, it is reported his daughter also claims she was part Jewish through her mother. However, his daughter is under political pressure, and she also stated that her father didn't hate Serbs and persecuted no one. Could we take her words for certain? Is it just 'political correctness'? I can't be sure.

The biggest argument against her Jewish ancestry would be-how could Hitler tolerate it? But, as I've said, everything is possible-as one of the founders of the SS had Jewish ancestry himself, as it is stated a few paragraphs below.

What's confusing-while Slavko Kvaternik and his wife Olga (she had 1/4 Jewish origins) didn't look at anti-Jew policies with delight, Lovrencevic and her husband had nothing against it. In fact, certain circles of Croat nationalists were surprised by Pavelic's implementation of anti-Jewish laws.

Unfortunately, it doesn't end there-if she was indeed half Jewish or one quarter Jewish-even under German law she wouldn't be considered a Jew but rather a 'Mischling' (mixed), and as a wife of an Axis dictator, she could easily get the title of Aryan just as we will see in the paragraph about Jews in the Third Reich. So we can't be certain she wasn't Jewish either.

It would be beautiful if we were able to see documents from a Jewish parish confirming Lovrencevic's Jewish lineage. But just with the data we can find on the internet, I can't be certain.

Verdict? Not enough evidence on this one. It is possible, though not certain.

What we know for sure is that there was only one high ranking Ustasha member of partly-Jewish origin-Eugen 'Dido' Kvaternik.

However, Dido wouldn't even be considered a Jew under German laws, as he was 1/8 Jewish (his grandfather, the famous Josip Frank I've written about was 1/2 Jewish). His grandfather was the last Jew in family, as he renounced Judaism at the age of 18. (Again, I say that genetics is a different and secondary story here)

Alexander Klein-no data at all on this person on the Internet. Did he even exist?

V. Singer-executed in 1943. as responsible for failing to protect Zagreb post building from a diversion. Not a high ranking member, though he was more important in pre-war period.

Minister Žanić's Jewish wife? No data at all on her.

Hinko Hinković? Died shortly after the creation of Ustasha movement. It could be hard to say that he was involved with Ustasha movement. Singer did work for Pavelic's elections, but there is no evidence that Hinković was one of the leaders of Croatian nationalism at all. It's maybe a part of distortion of history to prove the 'Judaic origins of Croatian nationalism'.

But finally, MirkoS commits a grave mistake-he includes the myth of '28 Jewish generals of NDH' in his article, setting Halke, Kirchbaum, Praunsperger and other NDH generals as examples of Jewish overrepresantation in NDH government, compromising historical legitimacy of his sources.

As you're about to find out-the catch is-none of them were Jewish or had Jewish lineage. What a farce!

This was posted on Croatian historical forum. I beg you to read carefully and thoroughly.

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1.Alabanda, inž. Hinko - Engineer of Technology, University of Ljubljana. He was retired as a Colonel of the NDH regular army in January 1944, and unhappy with this decision he joined the Ustaska vojnica. There is no evidence that he was actually promoted to General once the vojnica and regular armed forces of the NDH merged, though he carried the rank in emigration post-war. He was a Roman Catholic from the area of Zadar.

2. Aleman, vitez Ladislav - I have no indication that he was Jewish, though I find it unlikely. He was the Deputy Commander of the Zagreb garrison from February 1945 till the end of the war.

3. Angeli, Edgar - Not a General, but a Vice-Admiral. He was the commander of the NDH Navy from April 14, 1943 till his retirement on April 21, 1944. I have no indication that he was Jewish.

4. Balley, pl. Emanuel - Carried the rank of Colonel, not General. He was retired in October 1942. He comes from an aristocratic family (plemeniti), and I have no indication that he was Jewish.

5. ćuš, Oton - Retired in March 1944 due to his non-radical opinions regarding NDH state policies. No information on being Jewish.

6. Fritz, Julijo - His name was JulijE, not Julijo. Commanded the 10th Croatian Division as of April 1945. No indication that he was Jewish, but rather volksdeuthsch.

7. Gamberger, Josip - I have never heard of this person, and do not believe he was a general in the NDH.

GAMBERGER, Josip. 08.44 Podpukovnik, CO of the II Motor Transport Battalion with HQ in Bosanski Brod. 01.45 PPuk., CO of a mobilization command in the III Corp area (possibly Sarajevo).

8. Halla, pl. Ferdinand - Also known as Ferdo Halla, he was NOT a general. The highst rank he attained was Colonel (glavnostozerni pukovnik).

15. Miesler, Milan - I have no information confirming that he was Jewish.

16. Prauensperger, pl. dr. Milan - Should be PRAUNSPERGER. Descended from an aristocratic family, doctor of law. Commander of the Legal Department of the NDH armed forces and Director of the Military Archives and NDH Museum until his retirement in 1944. I have no indicattion that he was of Jewish descent.

17. Resch, Julio - I have no information on this person.

REŠ (RESCH), Julije (Julio). 12.41 Podpukovnik, CO of the Koprivnica Garrison Command (and 04.42). 10.04.42 PPuk., appt CO of the Koprivnica Group (1st Bicycle Bn. and some local Ustasha and Gendarmerie) under the Kalnik Brigade for operations in the Kalnik Mountains. 01.05.43 PPuk., appt CO of the Paški Brigade in Karlobag/N Dalmatia (this may be Hinko Reš) (to c. 31.05.43). 07.43 PPuk., CO of Security Sector Kalnik-Bilo in Koprivnica. 11.43 PPuk., CO of the 10th Jäger Rgt. 07.44 Pukovnik, possibly acting CO of the 4th Jäger Brigade for a month or so. 02.08.44 Puk., KIA along the road between Bos. Novi and Zagreb when his car was ambushed by Partisans.

18. Rubler, Dragutin - Should be RUMLER. Liason officer of the NDH with the Italian II. Armata. Died of natural causes on May 16, 1944. No indication that he was Jewish.

19. Sach, Julio - Originally a naval officer in Austria-Hungary, he was commander of II. Protection Area (II. zastitnog podrucja) of the Territorial Defense (Narodna zastita) when he was killed in an air raid on April 21, 1944. He was possibly of Jewish descent.

20. Simovia, Julio - I have no information on this person.

SIMOVIA, Julio. No information either - existence doubtful.

21. Steinfel, vitez Nikola - Not a General but an Admiral. Minister of the Armed Forces of the NDH as of August 30, 1944. No indication that he was of Jewish descent.

Steinfel je bio Nijemac, nikakav Židov.

22. Šarnbek, Ivan - Served on the Eastern Front as a battalion commander of the 369th Regiment. Later commanded the 5th Infantry Regiment and the 6th Infantry Division. Retired in December 1944 as commander of the 2nd Reserve Regiment. No indication I am aware of that he was of Jewish descent.

23. Šnur, vitez Ivo - Real name Ivan. Post-humously promoted to General after dying of wounds sustained in battle on May 31, 1944 in the village of Spanovica. No indication that he was Jewish.

24. Scholtz (Šolc), Josip - Deputy commander of the 1st Croatian "Storm" Division. No indication that he was of Jewish descent.

25. Tartaglija, Kvintijan - Should be TARTAGLIA. It is my understanding that he was of Italian descent.

TARTAGLIA, Kvintijan(?). 29.07.41 Gend? General, deputy CO of the Croatian Gendarmerie in Zagreb. His first name is questionable.

26. Wanner, Rudolf - Retired in November 1944 as Director of the Intelligence Department of the Ministry of the Armed Forces of the NDH. No indication that he was Jewish.

27. Zgaga, vitez Mirko - Post-humous promotion to General after his death in battle defending Gospic on October 9, 1943. Roman Catholic from Sibenik.

28. Zorn, Božidar - Commander of the 2nd Croatian Division as of April 21, 1945. Fate unknown. Born in Italy, but I have no information on his religion.

Summa summarum-be careful when you're reading anything with Ustasha as its teme, especially if it's created by Serb. Objectivity and historical legitimacy is doubtful in such cases.

The biographies of 'Jewish' 'generals' (of the ones that existed, it is) in NDH are included in Tko je tko u NDH book. None are referred to as Jews or of Jewish descent. Some are Slovenian, Italian or German or referred to as Roman Catholic.

Some of the 'generals' from the article MirkoS includes in his post didn't even exist, some weren't generals at all, some have names misspelled or different ethnicity. Seems to me that he didn't put much effort in researching for legit historical proof of it.

I even managed to come across photos of supposed 'Jewish' generals.
Hinko ing. ALABANDA

Emanuel pl. BALLEY

Ferdinad pl. HALLA

Oskar KIRCHBAUN

Milam MIESLERE

Milan dr. pl. PRAUNSPERGER

Josip Šolc

After taking a look at those pictures, they are far from your stereotypical representation of a Jew.

So what in the end is this myth? Where did it come from?
Well, it comes from certain persons who are trying to prove that Ustasha movement was antifascist, antiracist and Jew ran. You probably know them under the name 'kosher nationalists' we use here on Stormfront. With all of the sources I've provided, try to guess how true it is.

It's not even listed in historical books-it's more of an internet myth that got its fame by being included in an online newspaper dnevno.hr.

Next myth;Croatian authorities were pioneers of 'honorary Aryans'

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The Ustashe's "Honorary Aryans"

Even more interesting was the fact that the S.S. Intelligence service had discovered that nearly all members of the ruling clique in Croatia, from the head of government to the leader of the Ustashe, were married to Jewish women. The fifteen hundred survivors among the Jews in this area were clearly all members of this highly assimilated, and extraordinarily rich, Jewish group.

In the initial anti-Jewish legislation, the Germans had noted a curious paragraph that transformed into 'honorary Aryans' all Jews who made contributions to 'the Croat cause.' Hundreds of other Jewish leaders and officials were made "honorary Aryans," a practice that the Germans looked upon as quite serious. W. H. Allen, in his book, The Destruction of the European Jews, noted that: (German Police Attache SS-Obersturmbannfuehrer) "Helm added that the problem of honorary Aryans was admittedly unsolved; some of them were still holding office." Helm remarked that quite a few Croat leaders had strong family ties with Jews and that "some cabinet members had Jewish wives."(16)

Jews and the racial laws

"Like all areas occupied by the Germans, the Gestapo and SD units of the SS were active in Croatia. The heavy toll of Jews, as well as Croatian Catholics and Moslems, was surely taken. Although the Croatian government posted the racial laws required of them by Germans, Jews were on many occasions assisted by the Croatian people and Croatian laws. One such law redefined the German racial laws in such a way as to allow hundreds of Jews and children of mixed marriages to escape the Nazis. Another law granted full citizenship to those who had excelled in their "service to the Croatian State." (15)

Facts:

i. The Ustasha were often known as 'Francovi' or 'Frankists' due to the dominance in their political evolution of Dr. Isaiah Frank, a Jew. He became leader of The Party of Right (Law) in 1896, following the death of Starcevic. Dr. Frank became a Catholic, taking the baptismal name of Josip ((EJ 16:917)). Frank was greatly admired and honoured by the Ustasha.

ii. A Jewish lawyer, Hinko Hinkovic, was amongst the ideological and political leaders of Croatian nationalism ((EJ 16: 917)) and Vlado Singer, a Jewish intellectual, worked for Pavelic's election to parliament in 1927 ((MTA 125)).

iii. The Ustasha was not greatly interested in the Jews prior to the outbreak of the war ((SSJ 19: 22)). Their hatred was centred on the Serbs.

iv. Pavelic (as Chief of State) and Milovan Zanic (as President of the Legislative Committee) jointly signed the 1941 decrees concerning Jewish and Serbian property ((RL 606-627)). Yet both had Jewish wives ((MR 69)). According to Nazi ideology, the lives of these wives and their 'mischling' children were under threat.

v. Slavko Kvaternik who proclaimed Croatian independence on 10th April 1941, and became Commander of the Armed Forces and Pavelic's deputy, also had a Jewish wife ((IO 21-22)).

vi. Eugen (Dido) Kvaternik was appointed Director of Public Security. Being the son of Slavko he was therefore half Jewish.

vii. Jews were still holding official positions in Croatia, including senior ones within the Ustasha command, as late as 1944 ((RH 457)).

The paragraph begins with a sentence, I suppose, written by MirkoS (the style of writing is unmistakable). And even if it was written by a historian, it doesn't make any difference.

It makes no sense-as NDH procedure for Honorary Aryans was even more 'strict' than the German one. In NDH, officials of partly Jewish descent were able to get Aryan status only if they had supported Croatian independence before the creation of Croatian state. In Germany, they would've gone under a process to be reclassified as Aryan, and as I've listed a few lines below, some were instantly reclassified as Aryan by Hitler himself. Isn't that amazing. Was Germany also a Jew ran government.

There is no reason for SS 'discovering' high numbers of Jews, as the origins of few officials of actual Jewish origin (Kvaternik, Singer, Korsky) were no secret at all. In fact, Horstenau calls Kvaternik 'part Jew'. Why is that so?

Finally, is Ustasha movement probably the biggest assembly of Jews on one place since the settlement of Palestine? How could the Germans tolerate large Jewish infiltration of their ranks?

To get our answers, we should take a look at high positioned Jews in Germany and Italy and try to draw some comparisons.

GERMAN HONORARY ARYANSHelmut Wilberg
He did exist, he was half Jew by origin and he was a general-unlike our phantom 28 in NDH.Classified as Aryan by Fuhrer himself in 1935.

Erhard Milch
A half Jew by descent, and unlike NDH Jews, not only that he actually existed, he was also a high positioned official and one of the leaders of Luftwaffe. Reclassified as Aryan by Fuhrer himself.

Bernhard Rogge
2nd degree 'Mischling' (quarter Jew). Went through a procedure to be classified as Aryan. Viceadmiral in the German Navy.

Werner GoldbergUsed as the ideal portrayal of the German soldier-ironically, he was of partial Jewish descent!

Hermine and Fanny Wittgenstein
Reclassified as Aryan for supporting NSDAP.

EMIL MAURICE

A high ranking official, one of the founders of SS (he was member no. 2, Hitler being no. 1) and a close friend of Hitler and his personal driver, by whom he was also declared Aryan. Himmler was delighted with discovery of his Jewish lineage and asked Hitler for permission to remove him from his duties. Hitler objected and kept Maurice close.

Margherita Sarfatti
Called 'the Jewish mother of fascism' she was Mussolini's mistress and one of the key people in initial years of the Fascist movement.

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In Italy, a significant minority of Jewish Italians supported both Benito Mussolini and Fascism. It is estimated that in 1938, the year antisemitic laws began in Italy, 10,000 Italian Jews belonged to the Italian Fascist Party. One of the most significant was Aldo Finzi who became a member of the Fascist Grand Council before breaking with Fascism in strong terms. A more "loyal" example was Ettore Ovazza who had been involved in the March on Rome and in 1935 founded the Jewish/Fascist paper La Nostra Bandiera.

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Of the 117 original members of the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento, founded on 23 March 1919, five were Jewish. Since the movement's early years, there were a small number of prominent openly anti-Semitic Fascists such as Roberto Farinacci. There were also prominent Fascists who completely rejected anti-Semitism, such as Italo Balbo who lived in Ferrara that had a substantial Jewish community that was accepted and anti-Semitic incidents were rare in the city.

It's hard to say NDH laws differed from the German laws. In fact, they were in real world completely identical. Certain persons of partly Jewish descent could get the Aryan status for their deeds, both in the Reich and in the NDH.

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iv. Pavelic (as Chief of State) and Milovan Zanic (as President of the Legislative Committee) jointly signed the 1941 decrees concerning Jewish and Serbian property ((RL 606-627)). Yet both had Jewish wives ((MR 69)). According to Nazi ideology, the lives of these wives and their 'mischling' children were under threat.

Not true, as persons with less than 75% Jewish ancestry could get Aryan status as they wouldn't have been considered Jewish but rather Mischling.

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iii. The Ustasha was not greatly interested in the Jews prior to the outbreak of the war ((SSJ 19: 22)). Their hatred was centred on the Serbs.

Their hatred was centered on the Serbs. Well, is that surprising after the aristocide and murders of civilians by the Belgrade authorities?

Of course Ustasha officials were mainly concerned with Serbs.
However, even before the war broke out, in 1933. Mile Budak, one of the highest officials in NDH, wrote a book Opanci Dida Vidurine (Grandfather Vidurina's Shoes).

In modern period Croatia, it was listed as one of the books students read.
Some streets were named after him, but they were renamed.

In his book, Budak writes about how 'everything Croatian is better than anything Jewish'. Certain schools were criticized for his book being compulsory, as it was 'full of bigotry and antisemitism'.

Here is a speech from Andrija Artuković, a minister during NDH period.

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...Immediately after the founding of Yugoslavia, all the enemies of the Croatian people - the Jews, the Communists, and the Freemasons - united with those of to so-called "Piedmont of the Balkans" [Serbia] in order to destroy the Croatian people and suppress all national aspirations.

In the life of Yugoslavia, it was the Jews - who worked for and prepared the world for revolution - alongside their two most important international allies - the Communists and the Freemasons, who especially distinguished themselves. These three national groups have attempted with all their might to destroy everything Croatian they could find.

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vi. Eugen (Dido) Kvaternik was appointed Director of Public Security. Being the son of Slavko he was therefore half Jewish.

Not true again. Dido was 1/8 Jewish, through his mother, and not a Jew under German racial law.

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Frank was greatly admired and honoured by the Ustasha.

Not only that Frank wasn't seen as spiritual leader by the Ustasha-it was Starčević, as I've written in the first paragraph.
Here are World War Two period posters and graphics made by NDH authorities:

They praise and depict non-Jewish figures. Frank even seems to be a bit 'forgotten' in all this story.
Croatian kings that established the first powerful and independent Croatia, Tomislav and Zvonimir, along with the father of Croatian nationalism, Ante Starčević, and the leader of peasantry, Stjepan Radić, earn the highest praise.

Summa summarum about Jewish officials in NDH

After the myth of 28 Jewish generals bursted like a soap bubble, we are left with very few 'Jews'.

There are only three NDH officials of Jewish origin we know of;
Vladimir Singer

Eugen 'Dido' Kvaternik (raising a Roman salute)

Ivo Korsky

Out of that three, only Kvaternik had a high rank in NDH. Singer failed his duty and paid for it.

Even more-Kvaternik was also removed (not executed but removed from duty in 1942. just like his father). It would seem that by the beginning 1943. Ustasha movement lost the very few of its last Jews.

Not only that you can't make a mountain out of a molehill (put it simply;exaggerate so much), or a proclaim a movement to be 'Jewish' or 'Jew ran' for a marginal number persons of partial Jewish descent who didn't even identify as Jews-what's even more important is that Germany itself had more Jews in high ranking places than the NDH, just like Italy. As I've said, wouldn't agreeing with the claim that NDH leadership was 'Jewish' also mean that German Reich was Jewish?

Saying that NDH was Jew ran and Jew friendly would be comparable to saying Hitler liked Jews and Nazi Germany was Jew ran for a dozen of officials of partially Jewish origin and approved by Hitler.

Of course, MirkoS's article can't even remotely be viewed as objective or moved by causes of historical correction and revision.

Isn't that ironical-Nazi Germany itself had more high ranking Jews in its ranks!

Naturally, certain persons of Jewish origin did 'slip' through the filters of Axis powers. They were approved by leaders themselves.
Would Hitler having Maurice as a friend make him 'Jew friendly'? Could we turn history upside down and proclaim German Reich as 'Jew ran'?

Italy, Germany and Croatia all had certain persons of partial Jewish ancestry in their ranks. Does that change anything? Barely. Jewish people oppose and hate those regimes today, no matter their deeds. Jewish 'Mischling' in all of the three regimes are marginal, accounting for a minor part of their leadership.

If NDH was Jew ran because of Singer, Korsky and E. Kvaternik, couldn't we also conclude that Germany itself was Jew ran for Wilberg, Rogge, Milch, Maurice and others?
Only if you see just what you want to see.

MirkoS in his post posts historical myths, fallacies, rumours, unverifiable data, claims contradicting one another...
He certainly has a motive for it and he pulled some strawman arguments to proclaim NDH government as 'Jewish'.
Should you trust him? I suppose I've posted more than enough evidence to make that conclusion easy to make.

MYTH:GERMANS OUTRAGED BY USTASHA ATROCITIES

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The fact that their hatred was centred on the Serbs was even confirmed by the Germans:

As early as July 10, 1941, Wehrmacht General Edmund Glaise von Horstenau reported the following to the German High Command, the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW):

“ Our troops have to be mute witnesses of such events; it does not reflect well on their otherwise high reputation... I am frequently told that German occupation troops would finally have to intervene against Ustaše crimes. This may happen eventually. Right now, with the available forces, I could not ask for such action. Ad hoc intervention in individual cases could make the German Army look responsible for countless crimes which it could not prevent in the past. ”

“ Increased activity of the bands [of rebels] is chiefly due to atrocities carried out by Ustaše units in Croatia against the Orthodox population. The Ustaše committed their deeds in a bestial manner not only against males of conscript age, but especially against helpless old people, women and children. The number of the Orthodox that the Croats have massacred and sadistically tortured to death is about three hundred thousand. ”

During World War II, various German military commanders gave different figures for the number of Serbs killed in NDH - They circulated figures of 400,000 Serbs (Alexander Lehr); 350,000 Serbs (Lothar Rendulic); between 300,000 (Edmund Glaise von Horstenau); more than "3/4 of a million Serbs" (Hermann Neubacher) in 1943; 600-700,000 until March 1944 (Ernst Fick); 700,000 (Massenbach).

The exact number of Serbs killed in the NDH is unknown because, after the war, the Communists (led by Josip Broz Tito - Croat) destroyed evidences of Ustasha crimes. They (Communists) were doing that because it was supposed to create a Yugoslavia in which all nations should be the same.

Hermann Neubacher stated:

The recipe, received by the Ustaše leader and Poglavnik, the president of the Independent State of Croatia, Ante Pavelić, resembled genocidal intentions from some of the bloodiest religious wars: "A third must become Catholic, a third must leave the country, and a third must die!" This last point of the Ustaše's program was accomplished. When prominent Ustaše leaders claimed that they slaughtered a million Serbs (including babies, children, women and old men), that is, in my opinion, a boastful exaggeration. On the basis of the reports submitted to me, I believe that the number of defenseless victims slaughtered to be three-quarters of a million.

Also, Italian soldiers, who were overwhelmed and disgusted by the atrocious slaughter, reported similar figures to their commanders.

Even the Vatican's sources also speak of similar figures, that is, for an example, of 350,000 ethnic-Serbs slaughtered by the end of 1942 [Eugen Tisserant 124]

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As early as July 10, 1941, Wehrmacht General Edmund Glaise von Horstenau reported the following to the German High Command, the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW):

Again, MirkoS makes mistakes (are they inentional?). He takes quotes said by Horstenau.
What MirkoS is missing on here is-Horstenau disliked Hitler and he ridicules all Nationalsocialist movements in his diaries. He could hardly be considered as an objective source. Also, diaries and memoirs of other high ranking Axis officials are kept as a strong secret, yet we're presented only with Horstenau's memoirs.
What's even more curious, Horstenau consistently, constantly and persistently tried to persuade Pavelić to swap sides and turn to Americans. Pavelić turned the offer down after considering it.
Is it all one huge coincidence?

“ Increased activity of the bands [of rebels] is chiefly due to atrocities carried out by Ustaše units in Croatia against the Orthodox population. The Ustaše committed their deeds in a bestial manner not only against males of conscript age, but especially against helpless old people, women and children. The number of the Orthodox that the Croats have massacred and sadistically tortured to death is about three hundred thousand. ”

And then, he quotes Uki Goni (Is that really his name?), a Nazi-hunter. Erich Priebke sued Goni, but it was turned down even though he won certain cases.

This is a quote from his book called The real Odessa, published in 2002. My opinion is that this source couldn't be taken as completely reliable-if only I had a legit copy or a picture of the letter itself! Another of his begginer mistakes is taking all sorts of quotes from Wikipedia-however, Wikipedia's sources are often hardly verifiable. You might end up with information like 'John Seigenthaler being involved in Kennedy's murder', which is just one of many big blunders on Wikipedia.

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During World War II, various German military commanders gave different figures for the number of Serbs killed in NDH - They circulated figures of 400,000 Serbs (Alexander Lehr); 350,000 Serbs (Lothar Rendulic); between 300,000 (Edmund Glaise von Horstenau); more than "3/4 of a million Serbs" (Hermann Neubacher) in 1943; 600-700,000 until March 1944 (Ernst Fick); 700,000 (Massenbach).

The actual number of dead in Yugoslavia in World War Two was 1 200 000 people, Serbs accounting for slightly more than 500 000 dead. According to that, Ustashe would've killed every single dead Serb in the war, and according to some they would've killed even more than the real number.

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Also, Italian soldiers, who were overwhelmed and disgusted by the atrocious slaughter, reported similar figures to their commanders.

No quotes, no sources. Also, Italians couldn't even be taken as objective, as they had numerous quarells and ideological disputes with Ustasha. They would have lots of motives to discredit their Croatian rivals. One peculiar story is the story of 'Pavelic keeping a basket of Serb eyes on his table'. It went viral, though it originates from a fiction book by C. Malaparte.

However, certain Ustasha officers did commit atrocities. They dressed in Ustasha uniforms with no permission, and were referred to as 'wild Ustashi'.

This is a legit poster from NDH period.
It proclaims that 50 Jews and communists have been shot for sabotaging a post office with an explosive device.
The important part is-it also proclaims that several of the 'wild Ustashi' have been caught and also shot for plundering and commiting crimes over 'greekeasterners'.

What S. Kvaternik said about the wild Ustashe is that they 'disliked work', that they were mostly people who suffered persecution by the Yugoslav authorities and that they wanted revenge-while some simply wanted to run away from their duties.

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The exact number of Serbs killed in the NDH is unknown because, after the war, the Communists (led by Josip Broz Tito - Croat) destroyed evidences of Ustasha crimes. They (Communists) were doing that because it was supposed to create a Yugoslavia in which all nations should be the same.

Unfortunately, MirkoS simply proves to be a liar here.
It is probably the most idiotic claim I've ever heard from the Serbian side. Communists destroying evidence of fascist crimes? Oh, please!

That's one of the new myths. Apparently, Serbians seem to be discontent with the treatment they received in communist Yugoslavia. However, Serbs had the same privileged spot they had in the first Yugoslavia-and I'll write about it in the next part, but not here, as I'm beginning to digress again.

Of course Yugoslavian authorities did make best use of Ustasha infamosity and used it for propaganda.

The lie about 'Yugoslavia destroying evidence of Ustasha crimes' is just outrageous.

Yugoslavian authorities demanded an excavation on the site of Jasenovac camp, which ran during NDH time and was used by Yugoslavia for a short time too.

What they found was 481 skeletons which were mostly the victims of epidemics.

Yugoslavian authorities also erected a large memorial in 1966. That doesn't seem like covering up.
Yugoslavia magnified the number of victims in order to get more reparations from Germany. They estimated the number of killed in Jasenovac at 600 000 people.

Here is a sign from a memorial complex in Donja Gradina, claiming that 700 000 people were killed in Jasenovac.

Yugoslavian film industry also didn't seem to be 'covering up' Croatian 'crimes'
Here is a short scene from a Yugoslav period film.

Then, I did a bit of research on Jasenovac on the internet. Croatian Wikipedia says that in a confession in his trial, one of the commanders of the camp said that they gassed people and that he himself gassed about 100.

Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia claims that victims were killed with blunt weapons or knives, and burned in open pyres. (Vincent Reynouard did an experiment on pyres, and proved that it is unsuccessful method as the fire dies due to lack of oxygen).

English Wikipedia places a testimony of Alexander Arnon from the 1961 Eichmann trial, secretary of the Jewish Community in Zagreb, who says 'several hundreds of thousands' were killed.

Conclusion on this story about 'Yugoslavia covering up Ustasha atrocities'? Lie!

German official responsible for contacts with NDH, Siegfried Kasche, advocated resettling Slovenians in NDH territory, and resettling all the Serbs from NDH to Serbian territory. That means that 'mass deportations' weren't the deed of NDH solely, as Germany advocated them.

Siegfried Kasche
Hitler made a remark about Kasche being 'bigger Croat than Pavelić'. Kasche was convicted to death by post war communist authorities.

Hitler himself had recommended the Ustasha policies to continue for 50 more years to ensure Croatian state's future.
Hitler had several meetings with Ustasha leadership members and Pavelić.

He made several remarks about Croats-and he said that Croats, as 'part of Reich, as extraordinary soldiers of the Reich, would guard swampy areas'.
He praised Croats as exceptional people, though he thought that it would be best for them to be germanized.

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'Croatians are very proud people and they should be bound by a vow directly to the Fuhreer. For example, when Kvaternik* is standing in front of me, in him I see everything Croats are-loyal in friendship, and their word commits forever'

*Hitler refers to Slavko, not Eugen

Another myth is that Ustashe were also the pioneers of collaboration with Muslims, also a lie.

Hitler praised Islam for its 'fighting spirit'.

Below are the photos of Amin al Husseini with Hitler and Himmler on their meetings

MirkoS fails to mention that. Not objective and correct, I say.

The most important part about collaboration with muslims is that Muslim divisions in NDH, Kama and Handžar, were created on personal wish of Himmler himself.

But the question is-would Pavelic, Himmler and Hitler have the same views on collaboration with Muslims? Situation 70 years ago was completely different. Comparing Islam, Muslims and Bosnian Muslims of today to the situation of 70 years ago makes no sense. It would be comparable to saying England and France are still bitter enemies for the Hundred Years' War.

What would Hitler think of those Muslims who are in his country today? What would Pavelic think?

The claim about Muslim collaboration is another strawman argument.

In the second part which I will complete soon, I'll write about anti-Croat myths and controversies from the Yugoslavian period to the 1990s period.